Director: Leigh Janiak | USA | Fiction | 2014 | 87 mins
Film source: Magnet Releasing
Writer/Director Leigh Janiak’s first feature Honeymoon is a doozy. Two young newlyweds head to a secluded cabin in the woods to escape the city. On their second night Paul (Harry Treadaway) rises early to go fishing and discovers Bea (Rose Leslie of Game of Thrones) out of bed and possibly missing in the pitch-black woods. He finds her standing nude in a state of shock. Following this she seems somehow wholly different, clearly concealing a terrible fate, and the days following descend into terror and madness. Honeymoon deftly capitalizes on our fears – not only the fear of the unknown or the boogeyman in the woods, but the fear of love lost and anxieties that can be found in a new relationship – “How well do I really know this person I married?” This taut and smoldering horror’s strength comes from two incredible performances – that will leave you gutted.